This is an analysis of the poem If This Were All that begins with:
If this were all of life we'll know,
If this brief space of breath...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded Xcecafcf dgXgbded bhhhadXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010111 001101 01100101 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 110110 01000101 0101000 11000111 110101 100110111 110111 11011101 111111 11000110 010101 01010101 110101 11010101 010111 11010111 111101 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 10110111 111100 01100101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; if, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, how are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of If This Were All;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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